"I can't breathe" is a #slogan of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the #lastWords of #EricGarner, who was killed in 2014 after being put in a #chokehold by a #NewYorkCityPolice officer. A number of other #BlackAmericans, such as #JavierAmbler, #ManuelEllis, #ElijahMcClain, and #GeorgeFloyd, have said the same phrase prior to dying during similar #lawenforcement encounters. According to a 2020 report by #TheNewYorkTimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY

"I can't breathe" is a #slogan of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the #lastWords of #EricGarner, who was killed in 2014 after being put in a #chokehold by a #NewYorkCityPolice officer. A number of other #BlackAmericans, such as #JavierAmbler, #ManuelEllis, #ElijahMcClain, and #GeorgeFloyd, have said the same phrase prior to dying during similar #lawenforcement encounters. According to a 2020 report by #TheNewYorkTimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rrlPkd3VQ

Frank Tyson - White supremacy uses police to choke the life out of Black bodies as they gasp for air. They sit on the backs of #GeorgeFloyd, #EricGarner, and #FrankTyson., https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/frank-tyson

Chris Hedges Report: How Fascism Came
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/12/24/chris-hedges-report-how-fascism-came/
The loss of basic democratic norms began long before Trump, which paved the road to an American totalitarianism. He is the symptom, not the disease. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost For over two decades, I and a handful of others —…
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Historianspeaks remembers Eric Garner whoo would have turned 54 today.
On July 17, 2014, Garner, an African American man, was killed in the New York City borough of Staten Island by Daniel Pantaleo, NYPD officer, after Pantaleo approached Garner about selling loose cigarettes, used a chokehold, an illegal restraining tactic, causing Garner to lose consciousness and die.. Video footage of the incident generated widespread national attention. #EricGarner #ICan'tBreathe #NYPD #PoliceBrutality